Foreigners will be able to establish private schools or teaching institutions after Taiwan's entry into the WTO, a Ministry of Education official said yesterday.
Vice Education Minister Fan Shu-lu (范巽綠) also said that in line with WTO norms, Taiwan will also allow foreigners to provide long-distance teaching services, short-term courses, and services to local students who want to study abroad, although they will not be able to set up branch schools in Taiwan to recruit students.
Fan said the scope of these measures will not exceed that of the revised regulations of 1997 governing private schools, noting as an example that foreign universities are currently able to recruit students through local brokerage agents but still cannot establish branch universities in Taiwan.
Such regulations will remain unchanged in the initial stage after Taiwan's WTO entry and will therefore have no immediate impact on domestic private schools. But it is expected that there will be negotiations after WTO entry for a further easing of these regulations.
Fan explained that schools such as Harvard University will not be able to establish branch schools or set up private schools to recruit students in the initial stage of WTO entry, but that they would be able to offer long-distance teaching credits.
She noted that the impact of WTO entry on the agricultural sector will be immediate and that the service industry will have an initial setback.
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